Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: OSX
From: David Gerard Matthews (dgm4+@pitt.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 19:57:53 EET
Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
>>it's much easier to port from Un*x to OSX
>>than vice versa. A far greater number of
>>*nix libraries have been ported from the *nix world to OSX than the
>>other way around. You can even run X windows
>>on OSX
>>
>
>I think "OroboroSX", or some such name, is an X window manager
>for OSX that makes X apps fit in with Mac apps so it's not
>obvious which style is running. Gtk and Motif have been ported,
>so the GUI is not a big issue. The audio side is still primitive,
>but easy to use. Porting Snd took a few days, mostly spent
>chasing down dumb things like the -framework loader switch.
>I'd say it took about the same effort overall as porting
>to the Sun.
>
This is a bit off-topic, but did you use CoreAudio when porting to OSX?
-dgm
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